A principal and teacher at a suburban Chicago elementary school have quit after a video surfaced showing the two having sex in the principal's office.The attorney for the school board of Sandridge District 172, John Izzo, said Principal Leroy Coleman and science teacher Janet Lofton submitted their resignations on Thursday. Izzo said the principal cited health reasons and the teacher said she was quitting because a family member was ill.Izzo said both the principal and the teacher indicated they didn't know there was a camera in the office -- raising concerns that somebody may have secretly planted it there.... http://www.foxnews.com

A catering company that only recently took over the franchise at the Iraqi parliament was yesterday at the centre of the investigation into yesterday's bombing, as police detained three food workers for questioning and MPs said there had been prior complaints about the new service.But senior security officials said that they also hadn't ruled out the possibility that the bomber was a bodyguard of a member of the entourage of one of the Sunni MPs who were having lunch at the time of the explosion. Iraqi security forces guarding the building were also under suspicion."We are almost certain this was in part an inside job," said the official, who declined to be named. "There are some figures here with one foot in the political process and one in the insurgency."The developments came as MPs gathered for an extraordinary parliamentary "session of defiance and unity", the day after a bomber managed to slip through the network of security checks ...http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2056946,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12

Russia's chief prosecutor says he has launched new criminal proceedings against the exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky, who lives in London. Earlier, Mr Berezovsky told a UK newspaper he was plotting "revolution" to overthrow President Vladimir Putin. Moscow said Mr Berezovsky's comments to the Guardian newspaper were grounds for a criminal prosecution. Mr Berezovsky later clarified his words, stating that he backs "bloodless change" and does not support violence. Mr Berezovsky was granted political asylum in Britain in 2003. He told the Guardian that "we need to use force to change this regime" - referring to President Putin's administration in the Kremlin. He also said he was giving financial support to unnamed members of Russia's political elite who wanted to force a change of leadership in Moscow. The Kremlin said the comments undermined Mr Berezovsky's right to refugee status in Britain. Mr Berezovsky has a fortune estimated at £800m ($1.4bn)....http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6551643.stm

Protesters have staged their biggest demonstration so far against the suspension of Pakistan's Supreme Court Chief Justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry. Some 2,000 people gathered outside the court complex in Islamabad. A panel of fellow judges there has been hearing charges that Mr Chaudhry abused his office. Correspondents say the removal of Mr Chaudhry is being seen as an attempt by Gen Musharraf to stifle judicial independence in an election year. Mr Chaudhry has a reputation for judicial activism in cases that have caused embarrassment to the government. President Musharraf removed him from office on 9 March, triggering a wave of protests led by lawyers around the country. BBC's Barbara Plett in Islamabad says the latest protests were again being led by lawyers, but there was a much bigger representation of political parties this time. The protesters, including Islamists as well as the secular Pakistan People's Party activists, carried green, red and black flags. ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6551143.stm

A diplomatic row is brewing between the Vatican and Israel over the conduct of a former pope, Pius XII, during World War II. The papal ambassador to Israel, Archbishop Antonio Franco, says he will not attend the annual ceremony for Holocaust victims on Sunday evening at the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem if the museum continues to display a photo caption claiming Pius turned a blind eye to the Nazi extermination of the Jews. The spat has erupted as the Vatican presses ahead with longstanding plans to make Pius a saint. "Even when reports about the murder of Jews reached the Vatican, the pope did not protest either verbally or in writing," the disputed Yad Vashem caption reads. "In December 1942, he abstained from signing the Allied declaration condemning the extermination of the Jews. When Jews were deported from Rome to Auschwitz, the pope did not intervene."...http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,477071,00.html

Windows XP will stop being available on new PCs from the end of January 2008. Microsoft is keeping to a plan to stop selling the operating system even though surveys show a lukewarm response to Windows Vista among consumers. A poll by US market research firm Harris Interactive found that only 10% of those questioned were planning to upgrade to Vista in the near future. All versions of XP, including those made for media centre or tablet PCs, are affected by the decision. Microsoft has confirmed that from 31 January 2008 large PC makers, such as Dell, HP and Toshiba, will no longer be able to buy licences for the software so they can install it on new machines. Windows XP is being retired to make way for Windows Vista, the consumer editions of which were launched in Europe on 30 January. However, a poll released in early April suggests that Vista has yet to win over significant numbers of potential customers. So its Vista or nothing? No, Linux is a better choice anyway, & its free...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6551429.stm